Authorities on Tuesday picked up 288 Covid-19 infections after locking down several residential blocks for overnight testing. 96 cases were detected from Choi Lai House of Choi Yuen Estate in Sheung Shui. At Shing Yat House of Kwai Shing East Est...

Researchers from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) said on Tuesday that Hong Kong is facing a crossroad over whether to keep its dynamic clearance strategy against Covid-19, or move on to start treating it as an endemic disease that will keep circula...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam will resume her question-and-answer session with lawmakers on Wednesday, but this time it will be moved to a virtual setting. The afternoon session will last 90 minutes. The last time Lam attended a Legco meeting in per...

A group of subdivided flat tenants said on Tuesday that the government’s new rent control policy has failed to protect them, as authorities are not completely clear about the provisions of the legislation and refuse to act as a mediator when landlo...

National security police on Tuesday said they are going to investigate every single student who joined martial arts classes taught by a man detained on suspicion of acting with seditious intent. A 59-year-old man described as having a foreign backg...

A government adviser on the pandemic, Ivan Hung, on Tuesday welcomed the administration's decision to suspend a plan to conduct territory-wide mandatory Covid testing, saying doing so at this point in time will not be cost-effective. Speaking on an...

The head of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, George Leung, said on Tuesday that Hong Kong's easing of Covid rules can attract talent and businesses that have left to return to the city. Speaking on an RTHK show, Leung welcomed the governm...

The Tourism Board on Monday said it is putting together a work plan in preparation for the reopening of Hong Kong’s borders, saying the scheduled lifting next month of the flight ban on nine countries is a great step forward for the tourism industr...

Hong Kong residents currently stranded in nine countries amid a Covid flight ban have welcomed the government’s decision to lift the restriction, saying they’re glad to finally be able to return to the SAR. Chief Executive Carrie Lam had announ...

Health officials on Monday imposed lockdowns on a few buildings in Kwai Chung, Sheung Shui and Kwun Tong after sewage samples there tested positive for Covid-19. Residents of Shing Yat House at Kwai Shing East Estate, Choi Lai House at Choi Yuen Est...

Hong Kong on Monday reported a slight drop in new coronavirus cases to 14,068, with health officials saying the Omicron outbreak is stabilising. It is the fifth day in a row the daily caseload has fallen, and the third straight day it's below 20,00...

The Hospital Authority (HA) said on Monday that it hopes the community treatment centre for Covid-19 patients at AsiaWorld-Expo can operate at full capacity in the coming week or two, as mainland medics who came to help out have started working there...

The government on Monday found 392 preliminary positive Covid infections after overnight lockdown operations in Sham Shui Po, Kwai Chung, Kwun Tong and Sheung Shui. Authorities identified 87 cases after testing 1,496 residents in Fu Sing House at Fu...

The government has announced the lifting of an inbound travel ban on nine countries starting from April 1 as part of easing Covid-19 measures. The announcement, which also involved the reopening of businesses from April 21, was made by Chief Executi...

Welfare Secretary Law Chi-kwong on Monday conceded that anti-epidemic efforts in care homes have failed to keep up with the Covid-19 outbreak. The minister was responding to government adviser Yuen Kwok-yung, who said care homes are the weakest link...

Environment Secretary Wong Kam-sing has defended the government's method of locating hidden Covid cases by testing sewage samples from buildings. This came after former Hospital Authority chief Leung Pak-yin said it is a waste of resources to adopt...

An accounting expert on Monday said the government’s latest pandemic wage support scheme is effective and affordable, but it does not help businesses that have already closed. Stanley Ho, a tax partner of KPMG China was commenting on the governmen...

Health officials reported 14,149 new Covid-19 infections on Sunday, the second straight day the tally was below the 20,000-threshold in the past three weeks. Among the latest cases, 8,273 were reported by people who took rapid tests and 5,876 were c...

The government is bringing forward the deadline for people to get their third Covid-19 jab by a month to May 31 under its vaccine pass scheme. Announcing the decision on Sunday, officials said people have been actively getting vaccinated and there a...

Labour and Welfare Secretary Law Chi-kwong said the design of the latest round of the Employment Support Scheme is different from its launch two years ago, adding that the aim now is to help bring about an economic recovery and lower unemployment tha...